Roanoke Pictures

[weill]

^^yeah.

[urbanvb]

Awesome pics, Weill. It's such as shame the Ponce De Leon Hotel caught on fire. What a gem of a building.

[weill]

yeah, the "newer" building looks like crap.

[urbanvb]

And I love old pictures. It's like going back in time or something. I have seen some grand pics of Norfolk back in the day and makes me want to go back sometimes.

[weill]

yeah, is there any in the Norfolk forum?

[urbanvb]

yeah, is there any in the Norfolk forum?

probably mixed in with everything else in the norfolk photo section.

[weill]

oh, ok thanks.

[weill]

February 13, 2006

[urbanvb]

what kind of building is that at the bottom. i would also imagine it to be abondoned..condemned?

[wrldcoupe4]

I hope it's abandoned!

[weill]

I think it is too, maybe something to do with the railroad. I accidently posted this in here, when it was meant to go in Roanoke picture of the day.

[electricmonk]

Hopefully these will show up, testing my new domain name. A few older shots. Two floods and a break from the downtown views.

Reserve Ave Sept 28 2004. The water rose quite a bit more after I left here. To the left is the area where the new Biomedical park is being developed.

Victory Stadium November 1985. My brother took this photo.

View from my old apartment. I could do a whole series of views from there. I had an awesome view. Too bad my landlord was an idiot and didn't pay my water and gas like he was supposed to so they got shut off and I had to move.

[urbanvb]

That really is quite a view to have to give up.

[weill]

great view, too bad you had to move.

Thanks for the pictures!

[bmedguy]

I'd like to post some pictures but the only prompt for attaching an image asks for a web address. How do I upload photos from my hard drive? Help!

[mclawsdrive]

There are free picture hosting sites that you can download your pics to. Then you link to the url of the host site. I've been using picfury.com but there are others that I think are better. Do a google search for free picture galleries and see what you can find.

You can go to other pictures and click on properties to see what site they are linked from. I should do this too, now that I think about it.

[BGW]

There are free picture hosting sites that you can download your pics to. Then you link to the url of the host site. I've been using picfury.com but there are others that I think are better. Do a google search for free picture galleries and see what you can find.

Imageshack and Photobucket are decent if you just want to put photos out there. Flickr is a good choice if you actually want to categorize, keyword, adjust sizes, etc.

[bmedguy]

Thanks for your help! Here goes my attempt. I and my family live in Old Southwest (OSW) and I LOVE it. It is about a 10 minute walk from the heart of downtown. I walk to work daily and that takes about 20 minutes from my house. My office had been at Carilion Medical Center but was moved last week to a new medical office building just around the corner and down the street. At any rate, this will change the route of my walk, but not the time it takes to get there. I thought I would post pictures from each of the two walks as it gives a good feel for the neighborhood and the medical area around Rivers Edge Park. Today is the old walk down Jefferson to the hospital. I will post the new walk soon. Hope this works.

Well, I keep getting an error message but regardless of which link I choose, it doesn't seem to have the proper format to upload for flickr to here. Here is the direct link to the set.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62433151@N00/...57594127561370/

[weill]

Great pictures!! Im going to attempt to bring them on here in a minute

[weill]

Here's your pictures, hope you dont mind me posting them for you.

[bmedguy]

Thanks weill. Glad you enjoyed them. What was I doing wrong?

[electricmonk]

Nice shots. Old SW has some beautiful houses.

I wish I lived within walking distance of work. Or rather I wish work was within walking distance of my place, I have no desire to live in the county. I was carless one time and couldn't get a ride and had to take the bus to Tanglewood and from there walk up 419 to Starkey to Buck Mountain to Merriman and being the county there's not a sidewalk or crosswalk anywhere.

[mclawsdrive]

Has anyone ever noticed the space behind the older parking garage (from the last photo, on the right) there is a 5 story wall, dividing the vacant lot at the bottom from the high ground behind it. It seem like the perfect place for an expanded parking garage or a building; perhaps a parking garage for the first 5 floors and then office space above that.

[weill]

I dont understand, sorry mclawsdrive.

bmedguy, just load the pictures to photobucket.com and then copy the url and put in on here wrapped in

[mclawsdrive]

You can't see it from the picture, but if you drive on Hamilton terrace, along the river, there is a vacant lot, right next to the parking garage with a very tall retaining wall behind it.